Military Deputy Commander with the US Southern Command, Lieutenant General Joseph P. DiSalvo, says the issue of transnational crime has to be tackled with the combined effort of the region.
He says it is a problem to the world regardless of the region.
General Salvo spoke with journalists Tuesday morning following the closing ceremony of Exercise Trade Winds 2016 at the Jamaica Defence Force Up Park Camp headquarters.
He said it is important for all nations to come together to face the threat of terrorism and decide what to do about it.
"We'll defeat it but is has to be from a regional point-of-view," he said.
"What motivates this event is the common priority for security for this whole region and so everybody regards the political background once they secure the environment for their peoples," he added.
Also speaking with journalists following the function at the JDF, Prime Minister Andrew Holness agreed there needs to be a regional response to transnational organised crime.
He says this is particularly important with the effect of it seen in Jamaica everyday.
"Trade in guns and drugs coming in from Haiti and other areas from the drug trade, the crime and violence that that spurs, and just the general disorder and the coalescing of gangs around these criminal economic activities," are what Mr. Holness outlined as the effects of transnational crime in Jamaica.
"Jamaica by itself can't respond alone to that. It requires a coordination - so the information sharing, the working together in partnership, the building of a community of response - that is critical," the prime minister said.
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